Engaging secondary characters bolster these three, particularly Lix Storm (Anna Chancellor), a former war correspondent in charge of foreign news who stays alert — and sardonic — on a prodigious and steady supply of cigarettes and whiskey.
Addicts are known for the prodigious logic they supply for patently irrational behavior; if the sickness of the culture is contagious, Pinsky, too, is at risk, and his mode of clinical outreach is potentially exploitation in denial.
He wrote to a friend: "What labor, what perplexity, what vexation, I have endured in arranging a prodigious multiplexity of materials, in supplying omissions, in searching for papers, buried in different masses -- and all this besides the exertion of composing and polishing.
Mr. Collier and a crew of six jammed themselves onto 1 and 9 trains with a prodigious amount of equipment, a bunch of art supplies and a blank stretched canvas, asking ordinary riders to contribute their artistic gifts to make a collective subway painting.
It is one of 31 such regions in the nation, and the only one with marijuana as the single targeted drug, an indication of this region's prodigious rise as a source of high-grade marijuana, an estimated two-fifths of the nation's supply, much of it for the Northeast.
Prodigious activities beckoned.
His philanthropy was prodigious.
The slaughter was prodigious.
Beard's output is prodigious.
He has performed prodigious labors.
